February 2001
Summary of news for the entire month.
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February 28, 2001 Man Honored For Cross Country Run
Schepers, 54, ate a bowl of cereal and then ran 25 miles daily, carrying a 10-foot pole draped with the U.S. and POW-MIA flags. From the anniversary of D-Day to Veterans Day last year, the South St. Paul man loped across the country, trusting that his passion would spread awareness for a World War II memorial in Washington, D.C.
February 28, 2001 What Are They Thinking - Nazi POW Camp Video Game Released
A recent poll showed the majority of teen boys and young men asked would NOT serve in the armed forces if they were asked or drafted. One wonders how many of them will run out to purchase the the following for the 'experience': "Codemasters Announces POW for Playstation2"
February 27, 2001 DoD On The Punchbowl
Mr. Larry Jolidon, compiled 239 names which he believes may be Korean War unaccounted-for servicemen whose remains can be identified in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific [NMCP], also referred to as the Punch Bowl.
February 26, 2001 DASD Jones' China Trip Report
Summary of Meetings, Topics and Travel
February 25, 2001 POW-MIA Freedom Radio Schedule
Broadcast Schedule for Sunday 25 FEB 01
February 24, 2001 NAF Bits 'N' Pieces
SUMMARY OF NEWS
February 23, 2001 DoD Personnel Recovery Conference
"It's unlikely that DoD can make significant progress toward improving its ability to recover downed air crews and other personnel behind enemy lines without some agency, office or command having budget authority over recovery-related activities", Mel Richmond emphasized during the recently completed DoD fourth annual Personnel Recovery Conference here.
February 21, 2001 NLF Update Line
News Updates
February 21, 2001 NLF Issue Update
Monthly News Summary
February 13, 2001 DPMO Weekly Update
WW II, Koreean War Remains Disinterred in Hawai'i :: Remains Repatriated from SEA :: US and Chinese Vets Meet on Korean War MIAs :: DPMO Hosts Personnel Recovery Conference :: DPMO Director Meets with SEA Ambassadors :: DPMO Holds National Day of Prayer Breakfast :: DPMO Participates in Case Coordination Conference
February 10, 2001 NLF Update Line
Family Update
February 10, 2001 NAF Bits 'N' Pieces
News Summary
February 10, 2001 NLF Update
Family Update
February 10, 2001 Vietnam Turns Over Remains
Vietnam has handed over to U.S. officials what are believed to be the remains of four U.S. servicemen killed during the Vietnam War, reports in the state-controlled press said Friday.
February 09, 2001 Ex-POWs to Receive Compensation
Thousands of British servicemen held prisoner by the Japanese during World War II will begin receiving payments Thursday of $14,500 each, the government said. Payments from the British government are part of a landmark plan announced in November that will ultimately cover up to 16,700 ex-prisoners or their widows. More than 12,400 of the 50,016 British service personnel reported captured by the Japanese perished.
February 08, 2001 US To Investigate China Sites
With China's encouragement, Pentagon officials are planning to visit two plane crash sites in the Himalayan Mountains that may hold the remains of American airmen lost in World War II. U.S. officials have tentatively linked one of the crash sites in Tibet to a C-46 transport lost on March 27, 1944, on a flight from Kunming, China, to Sookarating in the far northeastern reaches of India. The plane's crew of four is listed in Pentagon records as missing.
February 08, 2001 DoD News Release - China Crash Sites
The Department of Defense announced today that it has received preliminary information from the Peoples Republic of China on two U.S. World War II aircraft crashes in Tibet. During his delegation's meeting with Chinese officials in fall 2000, Robert L. Jones, the deputy assistant secretary of Defense for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs, was informed by the Chinese that they were developing more information regarding these crashes.
February 07, 2001 Cambodian Repatriation
U.S. soldier, among last Viet war dead, on way to Oahu for ID. U.S. officials today sent back to the United States what are believed to be the remains of one of the last American soldiers killed in combat during the Vietnam War era.
February 06, 2001 NLF Update Line
Family Update
February 06, 2001 NAF Bits 'N' Pieces
News Summary February 05, 2001 Family Update Schedule For 2001
Feb 24 - San Francisco, CA
Mar 17 - San Antonio, TX
Apr 21 - Cheyenne, WY
May 19 - Atlanta, GA
Jun - Jul Annual Family Conferences Washington, DC
Aug 18 - St. Paul, MN
Sept 15 - Providence, RI
Oct 20 - Orlando, FL
Nov 17 - Little Rock, AR
February 04, 2001 DOD News Release
Four sets of remains believed to be those of missing in action servicemen from World War II and the Korean War were disinterred yesterday from Hawaii's National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
February 03, 2001 POW Sightings and Russia
Despite misgivings in Moscow, Pentagon investigators are intensifying their search for Cold War-era Russian records that could confirm reports that American servicemen from World War II and the Korean War were held and died in the network of labor camps known as the gulag.
February 03, 2001 POW-MIA Prayer Breakfast
"To join you in prayer for our missing Americans; To thank the Defense Prisoner of War and Missing Personnel Office for their diligent efforts to date in locating our missing countrymen; and To encourage you to continue in a concerted effort until all are returned home, or accounted for."
February 02, 2001 JTF-FA News Release
A team of 96 mostly Hawaii-based U.S. military specialists leave for Vietnam Sunday (Feb. 4) evening with hopes of recovering remains that may lead to the identification of American service members listed as missing in action since the Vietnam War.
February 02, 2001 Punchbowl Exhumations
The military hopes to use DNA comparisons to account for missing U.S. personnel. A search to account for the missing in World War II and the Korean War continues today as military forensic experts exhume four graves at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl.
February 02, 2001 Table For One
A small pristine table with one chair sat near the podium during this yearıs seventh annual Prisoner of War and Missing Personnel National Day of Prayer breakfast on Feb. 1. It was a table set for one, which symbolizes that service members were missing from the midst of the annual gathering.
February 01, 2001 US Hiding ID's of Unknowns?
The military says it would only be speculating if it released the names and the locations of graves of Korean War soldiers buried under headstones marked "Unknown" for the past five decades.
February 01, 2001 Families Request 'Unknown' Locations
At least 239 of the 866 Korean War "unknowns" buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl were returned with data such as names, dog tags and personal effects, according to a researcher. "At least 239 of the caskets buried in Hawaii in 1956 contain remains that were among the nearly 2,000 sets that Communist forces turned over in 1954 complete with names, military service numbers and burial information from North Korea that matched U.S. records."
POW-MIA Issue Update March 2001